Hundreds of workers worked hard to build a road under the scorching sun.
Fang Xinwu, who drove an off-road vehicle from the alley, and two local boys looked curiously at the construction site not far away.
Along the way, they saw so many roads being built that the entire Shan State seemed to have turned into a big construction site.
Fang Xinwu had a feeling of confusion in time and space, as if he had returned to the hometown that he always dreamed of.
After the Mekong River incident, he did not return to the country, but continued to stay in the Golden Triangle.
Although Naokan and the bastard who killed his girlfriend were both put on trial, Fang Xinwu did not feel relieved. Instead, he felt a sense of emptiness and confusion, so he chose to continue his mission in the Golden Triangle.
But this time, he set his sights on the Wolf Spider Gang, which replaced the Leech Gang.
But what puzzled him was that although the Wolf Spider Gang smuggled things, they had never been involved in the flour business. Now they actually started the business of a labor agency, organizing local farmers to come out to work.
But Fang Xinwu didn't trust this kind of gang. He didn't think that Fang Jinpen had washed his hands, but hid the flour business in a more hidden place.
Fang Xinwu, who found nothing in the Golden Triangle, shifted his target to the Taunggyi Basin.
As the largest city in the Shan State Plateau, it is actually worse than the small counties in China. This was Fang Xinwu's first impression after entering the city.
But soon he encountered a situation.
A group of soldiers wearing body armor and helmets stopped his car. He took a look at their uniforms and found that they were a bit unfamiliar, unlike the Burmese soldiers he had encountered before.
A soldier who looked like a squad leader saluted him: "Hello, we are Taunggyi Internal Guards. Please show your ID and cooperate with the inspection."
"OK..." Fang Xinwu raised his hands, indicating that he had not made any small moves. After all, the opponent's assault rifle was aimed at the inside of the carriage. Once any movement was mistaken for resistance, he would really eat peanuts.
The squad leader directly opened the car door and hooked Fang Xinwu and the other three, who quickly got out of the car.
"Search it to see if there are any contraband."
"Okay, captain." Several internal guards replied weakly.
The squad leader scolded his subordinates stiffly: "Didn't you eat? Don't embarrass the general."
The main reason why these soldiers are weak is that everything is now standardized.
After they were eliminated from the regular army and became local internal guards, they thought they could let themselves go. However, they were disappointed because the people responsible for managing them were all a bunch of inexperienced guys.
In fact, they don't know that most of these inexperienced guys are soldiers. Of course, in order to prevent some soldiers from being recognized by acquaintances, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has uniformly fine-tuned the appearance of these soldiers.
Faced with such a superior officer, these experienced veterans naturally felt that they lacked motivation because there was no money to be made.
Fang Xinwu took out his ID card and passport from his pocket, and handed 50,000 kyats to the squad leader. The squad leader just glanced at his ID card and passport, and instantly confirmed the identity of the other party through the database in the biochip.
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The team leader drew out 1,500 kyats, three temporary passes and a guarantee letter: "Sign and fingerprint."
Fang Xinwu quickly signed and pressed his fingerprints.
Putting away the guarantee letter that was left behind, the squad leader gave Fang Xinwu the remaining money and ID: "When you come in, just stay safe and don't cause trouble. Keep the pistol by yourself. If you encounter trouble, go to the nearby internal security station."
Please help, come over!"
"Uh..." Fang Xinwu was still a little confused when he met a soldier returning money for the first time here.
But he soon woke up, drove an off-road vehicle, and took his two younger brothers into the city.
My first impression here is that it is old and broken.
The second impression that gave Fang Xinwu was that it was orderly.
From time to time, you can encounter heavily armed guards patrolling the streets, and all the shops on both sides of the street are open for business. There is no chaos like other cities that occupy the streets.
After driving for more than ten minutes, I finally saw a relatively decent hotel. The signboard said "Emerald Hotel" in Chinese and Burmese. It was obviously a hotel run by Chinese.
As soon as the car stopped, a waiter came over and knocked on the car window: "Sir, do you want to stay in the hotel?"
"Yes." Fang Xinwu nodded.
The waiter quickly explained: "Then please park your car in the hotel parking lot. Long-term parking on the roadside is not allowed here. If you park for more than half an hour, you will be fined."
Fang Xinwu has been in Hongsawady for so many years. This is the first time he has encountered such a thing. He said in his heart that strange things happen every year, especially this year.
He could only follow the waiter and drive the off-road vehicle into the parking lot behind the hotel. In fact, there was a parking lot. Fang Xinwu felt more at ease. After all, theft here was very serious.
Stopped the car.
As Fang Xinwu walked away, he asked the waiter jokingly: "Taunggyi has changed a lot! I almost don't recognize it anymore."
The waiter smiled brightly: "Haha, it's General Maungku who takes care of everyone. I heard that the general went to Pyinmana to become a minister, and he wants to modernize."
Modernization? What a familiar yet unfamiliar word! Fang Xinwu thought with a complicated mood.
"Brother Fang, what is modernization?" asked my younger brother Maung Heshui.
"That's it..." Fang Xinwu thought for a while, and gave a city that his younger brother is familiar with as an example: "It means becoming a city like Bangkok."
"Like Bangkok? Is it possible?" Maung He Shui looked unbelieving.
But the waiter was full of hope: "Our manager said that as long as you persevere, you might succeed."
Maung Heshui shrugged noncommittally.
But Fang Xinwu saw something different.
That is not a physical change, but a spiritual one.
There seemed to be a light called hope shining in the waiter's eyes.
He didn't laugh at the other person, at least the other person was a person with a dream, not a corpse-like body.
After checking in to the room, he took his two younger brothers to the restaurant on the second floor of the hotel and chose a seat by the window, where he could see the busy street.
Soon the waiter came over with the food.
A large bowl of Yangzhou fried rice, plus Kung Pao chicken and three complimentary bottles of Qingye Coke.
Although the chef learned from the chef of Station B, the taste is pretty good, at least better than General Tso's Chicken and Li Hongzhang's offal.
Anyway, Fang Xinwu has never tasted authentic Yangzhou fried rice and Kung Pao Chicken.
I just took a sip of Green Leaf Coke.
Maung Heshui on the side drank a bottle of Coke in two or three mouthfuls: "Hiccup... waiter, come again..." Then he looked at Fang Xinwu and the other two: "Three more bottles of Coke."
"Okay, please wait a moment." The waiter not far away came over and wrote on the receipt to add three bottles of Coke.
At first, Fang Xinwu thought that there were not many people coming to the hotel to eat, but as lunch time arrived, many people wearing construction worker uniforms appeared in the restaurant in groups.
This surprised him very much.
Although the prices of meals in this hotel's restaurant are not high, the income of local construction workers is also quite low.
He soon discovered something fishy because many construction workers had coupons in their hands.
In addition to construction workers, there are also many people who also come to dine with coupons.
Fang Xinwu slowed down his eating speed and listened carefully to the conversations of these workers.
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